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spinninBugs

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  1. I too received my flies today. Nice work everyone, thank you! Atxdiscgolfer, thank you for hosting a fun swap that benefited a great cause.

     

    Travis Bille- I have named yours "the show girl"

    atxdiscgolfer- how did you accomplish the different colored back/ belly? It doesn't look like a weave. Black pulled over the grey?

    fishingbobnelson- I started to tie a similar pattern (before realizing you were), one of my most frustrating days at the vise! Very nicely done!

    psychoprince- congratulations on your first swap! Let the addiction begin.

    utyer and spinninbugs- what do you call that style of hackle? not the material but the way it is presented.

     

     

    the technique I think you are referring to is hackle stacking. Its a damn cool technique


  2. I don't get the thing about tipping. Why should I when I payed for the service? Same with taxi and restaurants. The meal cost 30$, why should I give an extra 10?

    Same with a contractor. Man that wall looks straight, you deserve an extra 5 gran. :-)

     

    This is a very arrogant statement! Servers at restaurants rely on tips to make a living...if you don't want to tip someone for waiting on you then you need to eat at home my man! Now that that is out of the way, there are a lot of personal expenses being a guide, the fly shop doesn't pay for anything but the license... a guide has to have his own boat, his own rods, his own flies, has to buy and prepare the clients food and pays for the transportation. This is just my two cents.


  3. Nobody has really answered your question. It sounds like you want specific casting advice for heavy flies and not just how to cast better. First thing first, can you double haul? On heavy flies you definitely need to wait until the fly has reached the farthest point during the backcast and then there is a moment when the streamer loads the rod. At this moment when there is no slack in the line you will want to start the forward cast (preferably a double haul). If you have a lot of water behind, it helps to let the streamer hit the water on the backcast as well, this also loads the rod. I hope this helps with casting your heavy and larger flies. I feel each type of fly has a different casting stroke and tempo.


  4. after reading all the responses I feel everyone enjoys the "adventure". by adventure I mean having the ability to make your own choice, then experiencing your own outcome,and(my personal opinion) is essentially what every human strives for. and after trail and error we find success! Life and Living are two different things and once you discover what makes you feel alive, things become much less complicated and you stop focusing on materialistic shit. As dumb as that may sound .

     

     

    P.S. Great topic Mike! This has opened my eyes to quite a bit!


  5. Okay ... I can't wait any longer. First of all ... I like all the answers so far, except flytire's !!! "It's just fishing." Really ???

     

    Please allow me to explain my point of view why I don't agree with most of you, though.

    1. "Getting away from it all" can be achieved in several ways, so fishing is only one way to do it and doesn't count for me as a reason to keep fishing.

    2. "Getting closer to nature" only takes the hiking.

    3. ANY good hobby requires intense concentration. It's not worth having as a hobby if it doesn't allow you to forget, at least for a while, everything else.

     

    These are all good reasons for any one to have, but they don't work for me, because there are many other outlets that allow the same releases.

    One of my friends said it was the fight ... but even that didn't ring true for me.

     

    Then it hit me, literally: All of the reasons are secondary to the one thing that is exclusively "fishing".

    For me, the single reason I keep going back to the water is ... the hook set.

    That fraction of a second during which you detect the take and set the hook. Even the smallest fish (Unless you snatch it clear out of the water) feels like a monster in that initial moment when YOU pull on the line and know you've caught it. The fight is fun, but it's just a detail, "Will I land it or won't I?" But the hook set, ah, every fish is a trophy in that fraction of a second.

    I agree the hook set is a magical moment and probably one of the most satisfying feelings I have ever had. It is a complete sense of accomplishment. I go out day after day because fly fishing is one of the rare moments in my life when I feel am I actually applying myself 110% to the task at hand. It allows me to tap into a part of my brain that I am unable to during the work week. I wouldn't define it as escaping reality but more or less entering a primal mind set and truly living in the moment, which is extremely rare in this day and age.

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